We have been exploring our local area in class by looking at maps and images. With the help of some parent helpers we went out to explore our local area and used our five senses to help us identify what made our area so special.
At the end of our walk we visited Capelrig House. We looked at pictures online and learned about its history and we were all impressed with how it still looks almost the same as when it was built.
As part of our lessons on our senses we worked in groups to try to identify different objects from around the room without looking at them. It was great to see such teamwork and communication to help us each other identify the objects.

In class we were learning all about volume and capacity. In groups we explored different objects in the classroom and arranged them in different orders.
We took our learning outside and investigated transferring water to different containers and compared the amount they hold.
We needed to make estimates and then compared our answers.

This week we have been enjoying the lovely sunshine and warm weather.

On Tuesday we learned how to play Scatter Ball in the MUGA. It was so much fun, we can’t wait to play it again.

We walked to the bottom of the hill to look at our new crossing. Lots of us have already used it and we shared advice with each other about staying safe and crossing the road. We even learned that if you need it there is a dial at the bottom that spins when it is the green man to let you know it is time to cross.

We looked at a selection of non-fiction texts to help us understand different ways to share information. We really enjoyed looking at the travel brochures and furniture shop magazines.

We will use this to help create leaflets over the next few weeks.

On Friday morning we had a maths morning investigating number with Mrs Norman. When we were finished with our targeted task we decided to get creative in our learning zones. Take a look at the great things we created.

It was lovely to see all our families this week at our parent appointments, I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday weekend.

It was so lovely to be back in school this week with Primary 2C! Everyone was excited to share their news from over the holidays and before long it felt like we had never been away!

Today was our Eid celebration in school and we have had great fun creating art, dancing and making chocolate covered strawberries!

We can’t wait for all our grown ups to visit us next week for our open afternoons. This week we were very lucky as one of our grown ups came in for an early visit to teach us some Gaelic as part of our Scotland topic. We even got to hear some music on the fiddle!

We then created our own tartan using card and tissue. We found it hard to weave the tissue but we tried our best and the final results look fantastic. We can’t wait to show you them next week.

This week in numeracy Primary 2C were learning about different ways to collect and sort information.

We learned about Venn and Carroll diagrams then tried out a few activities to sort out our information. We wondered about all the data handling our grown ups do everyday.

In the MUGA we were working on our tennis skills. Each station made us focus on our control and accuracy when working with the bean bags and balls.

Sorry for the delay in posting – I only noticed it hadn’t posted when I went to post this week!

Primary 2C were faced with a castle building challenge this week. They learned about the history of castles in Scotland and then had to design and create castles that met the criteria they set. The teamwork and planning was fantastic to watch and all the children were able to discuss their castles in great detail. Take a look at the process with some completed castles at the end!

Welcome back to Primary 2C!

The children all returned to school on Monday with great tales about their time off. It was lovely to hear about families getting together and the children showing their appreciation for the time spent with others.

This week in Literacy we have jumped right back into developing our reading skills by building on our knowledge of sounds and common words. We are looking forward to looking at some Non-Fiction texts.

In Numeracy we have been exploring place value and learned a really fun game where we had to calculate the answer faster than our partner.

In P.E. we are going to learn about tennis and badminton. This week we have been focusing on reaction times and learning about the individual skills involved.

Today we decided that we would like to learn more about Scotland and where we live in the local area. We were really excited to learn that there are artifacts in our area that date back hundreds of years.

Our special keys all disappeared. On Monday morning we had a surprise delivery of a beautiful black and gold box. We needed to work through some challenges in the envelopes to discover the message. It told us that we were the key to reading! We worked so hard and learned to keep using all our reading strategies. The keys are now in our class to help remind us when we feel challenged.

This week we started to investigate money. We were able to share a lot of things we already knew before we started exploring.

We started with sorting out similar coins and even looking at some coins that people use in different countries. During our work we started asking questions about when money is used so we have decided to investigate it further. 

In writing we worked on story maps and using our imaginations to create our stories. We created amazing story maps that helped us tell stories that had a beginning, middle and end. Mrs Norman was so impressed we went to share some of our stories with Mrs Jamieson.